The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee today announced the Catastrophe Advisory Committee. This group will advise Mayor Giuliani on the needs of local communities in preparing for and responding to hurricanes and other natural disasters, in addition to the creation of a National Catastrophic Fund.
Joe M. Allbaugh, former Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will serve as the National Chair of the committee.
It seems clear that Guiliani believes in the twin pillars of the Cheney-Bush administration: fear and enriching one's friends. Scare them to death so that they won't notice you're feeding at the public trough. Perhaps you don't remember the name Joe Allbaugh. Here's Sam Stein on The Huffington Post:
to the disastrous reign of Michael Brown. In fact, he was the man who made Brown the Number 2 official at the agency. During Katrina, as the country suffered through the most botched disaster response in its history, Allbaugh was on the ground in the Gulf region -- not to help in reconstruction, but to get lucrative business contracts for corporate clients. His companies included Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), the subsidiary of Halliburton; TruePosition, a manufacturer of wireless products, services and devices, and the Shaw Group, a provider of engineering, design and construction services. Another Allbaugh client, Service Corporation International received a mega-contract through FEMA (through a subsidiary) to help with the recovery and relocation of Katrina victims.
And this is the same Rudy Guiliani who claims Bernie Kerik was an aberration in his appointment history.
One might have assumed that a presidential contender might want to run on the promise of hope and change but it seems that for some reason the right-wing Republican candidates want to wallow in the mire of the Cheney-Bush years.
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